by Miles Mogulescu | Aug 20, 2017 | Blog
Don’t get me wrong. I hardly mourn Steve Bannon’s departure from government. Writing in The Huffington Post last summer, right after Bannon replaced Paul Manafort as Trump’s campaign manager, I was one of the first to warn of the dangers Bannon posed. Having met...
by Miles Mogulescu | Aug 3, 2017 | Blog
It’s a warm afternoon in the small town of Newton, Kansas - population 19,105 - and the local Republican Party is holding an ice cream social in a neighborhood park. The crowd tends towards the older end of the age range and is almost entirely white. A tall,...
by Miles Mogulescu | Jul 27, 2017 | Blog
John McCain made his dramatic return to the Senate on Wednesday to cast the deciding vote to allow Mitch McConnell to proceed with attempts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. It was a vote of appalling hypocrisy. McCain is able to pay for his surgery — and...
by Miles Mogulescu | Jun 18, 2017 | Blog
Donald Trump has made clear that there’s little room in his “America First” foreign policy for pressure on authoritarian foreign governments - whether Russia, Saudi Arabia, or China - to improve their human rights record. When it comes to human rights, as Trump told...
by Miles Mogulescu | May 8, 2017 | Blog
While France has a different system from the U.S. for choosing its President, their run-off election bore an uncanny similarity to America’s 2016 contest between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. French voters were offered a binary choice between Le Pen, a neofascist...
